by PAINS Project | Jun 26, 2015 | Authors, Myra Christopher, PAINS Updates, Research |
by Myra J. Christopher Going for the Brass Ring Last year, Joe Selby, MD, executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), spoke to members of the NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (PCORI) to inform those of us on the...
by PAINS Project | Jun 12, 2015 | Life with Pain, Mary Alyson Lynch, PAINS Updates |
by Mary Alyson Lynch Your health is everything. I woke up one morning and had nothing. The sun pried my eyes open, I peered down at my lilac-painted toes, ran my fingers through thick, soft wheat, pulled the stubbly hollow of my arm to my nose, sucked in the scent...
by PAINS Project | Jun 11, 2015 | Advocacy, Authors, Myra Christopher, PAINS Updates |
by Myra Christopher, PAINS Director At the end of May, a colleague asked me if I was aware of Resolution 707 being brought to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) meeting by delegates from New York State. I was not. The proposed resolution...
by PAINS Project | Jun 5, 2015 | Advocacy, News |
by Dr. Lynn Webster Near the end of May, the New York Medical Society brought forward a resolution for the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates to consider. The focus of Resolution 707 is the 2001 Joint Commission standard to assess pain as the fifth...
by PAINS Project | Jun 2, 2015 | News, Treatment Options |
ASAM announces the release of its National Practice Guideline for the Use of Medications in the Treatment of Addiction Involving Opioid Use (Practice Guideline). The Practice Guideline will assist clinicians prescribing pharmacotherapies to patients with addiction...
